Phillips capitalized on the national recognition Orbison had achieved at Monument through three major hit singles in 1960 and 1961 that had gone to the top of the Billboard charts.

Notable exceptions are compositions by other Sun artists Harold Jenkins (better known as Conway Twitty) and Johnny Cash.

[4] For this release, all tracks except "Devil Doll" have been overdubbed with background vocals or additional instruments.

Avid Rock 'n' Roll labels included this CD in a box set entitled 3 Classic Albums Plus and was released on February 3, 2017.

[5] Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "is downright bracing and exciting, though it's easy to see why it never succeeded at the time -- numbers like "You're Gonna Cry" and "Problem Child" were a little too intense and ambitious as rock & roll, with too many changes and involved lyrics, to hold that audience en masse.